The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has outlined plans to review the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) it signed with teachers unions.
The Commission is seeking Sh56 billion over the next four years starting July 2023 to raise salaries for teachers from B5 to D5.
Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia said although trade unions signed the 2021-2025 CBA, it didn’t contain any monetary value, a move that would now be the subject of a review.
“The commission negotiated a non-monetary 2021-2025 CBA with the teacher unions pursuant to the advisory from the Salaries Review Commission. It was agreed that the CBA be reviewed mid-term if the economic situation would improve in the country,” Dr Macharia told members of the National Assembly Education and Research Committee chaired by Julius Melly on Tuesday.
“The Commission would wish to review the 2021-2025 CBA, more specifically the salary component with an aim to motivate teachers under the employment of the Commission.” She added.
“Accordingly, we request this Committee to support the Commission get Sh14 billion per year for four years to cater for the same.”
Dr Macharia also announced plans to recruit 20,000 new teachers in the next financial year to address the shortage of staff mainly at the Junior Secondary School level.
She urged Parliament to allocate the Commission Sh3.8 billion for the recruitment in the next budget to be presented in June.
The announcement comes just a month after the TSC recruited 30,000 teachers the majority of them who were posted in the Junior Secondary School with each institution receiving at least one member of staff.
Stakeholders have raised questions over the staffing crisis in schools arguing that one teacher was inadequate top handle all the 12 subjects on offer at the Junior Secondary School level.
But Dr Macharia said the Commission was determined to fix the shortage of teachers, which stood at 116,000 at the start of this year.
Dr Macharia also asked the Education Committee of Parliament to push for the approval of Sh2.2 billion for the promotion of 14,000 teachers who have stagnated at one job grade for long.
“The commission has received several requests from teachers, teacher unions, stakeholders among others on promotion of teachers who have stagnated in the same job group over the years and also those who have attained higher qualifications,” Dr Macharia said.
She added: “Admittedly, we have not been able to promote these teachers because the commission has not received promotion funds since the implementation of the 2021-2025 Collective Bargaining Agreement. This has in turn tainted the Commission’s image.”
To address the stagnation outcry, “the Commission requires Ksh2.2 billion to carry out the promotion of teachers in different job cadres”.
May God Almighty intervene and make it happen🙏
May God intervene for p1 teachers with diploma in ecde and degree be deployed to junior secondary
This is better said than done
I am happy of the leadership qualities in our leader, Dr.Nancy Macharia; a concern for the growth of the teachers of this nation.She really have the teachers at heart.
Plz government think of private schools teaches salaries and retirement age fixation
Why ask for degree transcripts and other evidences whereas TSC database is fully detailed! A number of pupported c3 to be promoted is a drop in the Indian ocean whereby so many of us we have intermingled and circumulucating there for more than ten years as we are almost phased out by age !it is unequivocal and parroquial kind of management to overlook or assume and the money is our page as volunteer Kenyans! People in the office most of them are questionable how they landed in the office!Where did the assessment and supervision go to a particular teacher before promotion! My colleagues are swimming in coins as am languishing in mayhem poverty!
Hello Am Nyaboka a Diploma teacher……… something has really touched my heart 💜 and fill like crying ak…….P1 teachers with B.Ed have been promoted automatic to C2 which will also mean that they will also be promoted to C3 automatic in the favor of CBC leaving behind Secondary diploma teachers who have stagnated in C2 for 8years and they acquired their degree many years ago….. Actually am still crying.
I request the TSC to also promote these diploma teachers who acquired B.Ed to job group C3 just like the promoted P1 teachers who will move automatic from C2 to C3 after serving for Three years in Junior secondary school.
God have mercy on Us.
The Tsc must rise to the occassion and make teachers smile all the way to the bank.
Thanks for a great suggestions you have proposed. Its. indeed sad for those teachers stangnating at C2 all long just witness ing as other job groups where being awards increment in salary.The majority are teacher who under took two KNEC exam to obtain a diploma in special needs education people in this category real toiled to pass 1st year exam which was measure to all you to proceed with 2nd year. Please consider them. Every school should have atleast one teacher who did EBD as area of specialiZation to caterfor behaviour modification in our schools my take please.
Tsc is really demoralizing teachers. Some upgraded their certificates using their resources and now they are told that they are not legible
Teachers need more than 60
Why leave teachers with degree in ECDE out and yet in their degree training they studied subjects like art, music,,craft,social studies,CRE and other subjects.let them also be considered surely
Tsc, a balanced employer ..Willing to pay all the teachers in municipalities with equal measure
Actually ECDE teachers did all the subjects including integrated science .Tsc have mercy on us.
Actually ECDE teachers did all the subjects including integrated science .Tsc have mercy on us.